"Brains in the Feet."

Bates writes of football, "the most beautiful game," and of going to Wembley Stadium. A later essay on the topic, "Past Masters," also appeared in the Sunday Times. In The Sunday Times (November 16, 1952, pg. 4, Issue 6761). Excerpts from the essay were published with the title "Soccer" in The Living Word -- An Anthology of Passages for Reading Aloud (1966).